Weighty vs Portly - What's the difference?
weighty | portly | Related terms |
Having weight; heavy; ponderous; as, a weighty body.
Adapted to turn the balance in the mind, or to convince; important; forcible; serious; momentous.
Rigorous; severe; afflictive.
Somewhat fat, pudgy, overweight.
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* 1913 , , The Little Nugget , ch. 14:
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*1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.2:
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* 1728 , , "A Dialogue between Mad Mullinix and Timothy":
Weighty is a related term of portly.
As adjectives the difference between weighty and portly
is that weighty is having weight; heavy; ponderous; as, a weighty body while portly is somewhat fat, pudgy, overweight.weighty
English
(Webster 1913)Adjective
(er)portly
English
Adjective
(er)- Indeed, the poor man has grown ten times as nervous as ever, since he has discovered, on such good authority, who the stout gentleman was. . . . He has anxiously endeavored to call up a recollection of what he saw of that portly personage; and has ever since kept a curious eye on all gentlemen of more than ordinary dimensions.
- His portly middle section, rising beyond like a small hill, heaved rhythmically.
Top 10 Worst Fictional Camp Counselors," Time (retrieved 8 May 2014):
- In Heavyweights , Tony Perkis (Ben Stiller) is a fitness guru who installs himself as the über-buff leader of Camp Hope, with the goal of helping portly youngsters shed their saggy stomachs and thunder thighs.
- Through his Heroicke grace and honourable gest.
- Be studious well to imitate
- My portly motion, mien, and gait